UE/R: SOCO PROJECT FACILITATORS URGED TO WORK HARD FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE PROJECT – DCE NABDAM
BY : RAYMOND BATASIA WEGWI
The Bolgatanga Municipal Health Directorate in conjunction with their foreign partner, Korean Organization International Corporate Agency (KOICA) has supported their CHPS+ Project Phase 2 volunteers in the Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper East Region to enable them to continue with their good works at their communities to improve health delivery. The volunteers were surprisingly given Knapsack sprayers, bicycles, Wallington boots, mobile phones, raincoats, torchlights and other accessories each for their work after their successful completion of the Phase 1 CHPS+ project. The representatives of the volunteers, Madam Agana Faustina from Zaare community, Madam Diana Nguma Azelepoka from Dorongo, Madam Diana Agana from Yorogo and Madam Janet Akologo all expressed their gratitude to KOICA, the Bolgatanga Municipal Directorate, especially Mr Stephen Bodortia, the Municipal Director of Ghana Health Service whom they nicknamed ‘director 1’ for the support and pledged to make a good use of the logistics to improve health services delivery especially at the community level.
The Bolgatanga Municipal Director of Ghana Health Service, Mr Stephen Bodortia, who presented the logistics to the CHPS+ Project 2 volunteers, was very thankful for the volunteers for their sacrifices and enormous support in community health delivery and also pledged his outfit and partners unflinching support to them, to do their work well. According to him, this is happening in Upper East and North East Regions and the first phase has ended in 2021 and the phase 2 started in 2023 for 5 years of each phase and the aim is to improve upon maternal and child health by preventing mother and neonatal deaths and to improve their health and the activities they are doing to prevent that, are community engagement, case management and supply of logistics to aid their work.
The Municipal Director of Health said the have community nurses at the CHPS compound and the volunteers, who are chosen by them and the community who are working together and the meet monthly and quarterly basis on the health issues. Mr Stephen Bodortia added that these volunteers moved from house to house to educate the people on health education, especially antenatal, sanitation and linking them to the health facilities or call the health officials to attend to them in their homes when it’s critical. He was very grateful to KOICA for their kind gesture and appealed to the community health volunteers to make good use of the logistics to improve health services delivery in their operational zones in the Bolgatanga Municipality.
